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,- C. D. WHITE PROTECTOR FOR SPINNING RINGS Filed Nqv. 1o 1922 Patented Get. 23, 19.23..

tanner CHARLES D. WHITE, 0F NORVI 10H, CONNECTICUT.

PROTECTOR FGB SPINNING RINGS.

Application filed November 10, 1922.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES D. WHITE. citizen of the United States of America, residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Protector for Spinning Rings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to protectors for spinning rings and more particularly to means for guarding the ring and its traveller from the accumulation of foreign matter such as lint, etc.

The invention comprises a protector of the type referred to which is made of pressed steel or other thin metal. The protector is so constructed as to extend upward from the base of the holder of the ring and partially surrounds the latter at a height which will be sufficient to prevent the accumulation of lint, or other foreign matter on the traveller.

As an incident of the construction also the deposit of lint on one traveller, which lint is thrown on from an adjacent traveller is efiectually prevented.

These and other features and advantages of the invention will be more clearly apparent from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features will bepointed out in the appended claims:

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 represents in plan view a spinning ring having applied thereto a device embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 1.

A portion of the ring rail 3 supports a spinning ring holder 5, the latter provided with the usual slots 6, preferably at .diametrically opposite points, to receive screws 7 which clamp the holder to the ring rail. The holder is provided with the usual upstanding bent portions 9 for engaging the base flange 11 of the ring 12, which latter is provided with the usual traveller, as 1 1. The guard or protector 15 is herein made in the form of an upstanding piece of thin metal, as pressed steel, provided with a base Serial No. 600,111.

flange 16 resting upon the ring holder 5 and suitably secured thereto, as by soldering. The protector 15 extends upwardly a suitable distance above the ring and the travel ler thereon, and is arranged in parallelism with the ring and extends around the same guard the traveller of each individual spinning ring against such lint as may be thrownofi' from the traveller of an adjacent ring. While it is possible, of course, that some small amount may settle from above on the traveller, this will be ejected through the opening 18 by the traveller as it rotates on the ring, and the lint will thus be prevented from accumulating to an extent to interfere with the free operation of the traveller and cause the breakage of threads.

Being constructed of thin sheet steel or other sheet metal, this protector is especially adapted for use in each individual ring of the frame, and when mounted upon the ring holder the protector constitutes, with such ring and holder, a unit which is readily applicable in its entirety to the ring rail, and at the same time is capable of removal therefrom as an entirety also.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim new and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the class described, comprising in combination with a spinning ring and its holder, an upstanding protector of sheet material extending circumferentially of the ring for a substantial distance and having its ends spaced to form an opening for the ejection of lint.

95 2. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a spinning ring and traveller, of a protector arranged to partially f I m 1,471,934,

' Surround said. parts, and having an opening. closing a substantial portion of the nng at the front thereof, said. protector extendand provided with a relatively small open-' 10 I ing above the ring and traveller. V V ing between its ends for the exit of lint. r 3. In a device of the olass' describeol, the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set combination with a ring holder, of a spin; my hand this first day of November, A. D. ningring thereon, and a protectonof sheet i922. Y

nietalseoured to the holder and extending V upwardly above the ring, said protector ena i CHARLES D. WHITE. 

